As Guyanese fam­i­lies await an­swers fol­low­ing the trag­ic loss of lives aboard the MV Bari­ma, mar­itime ex­perts are warn­ing that Cari­com’s push to re­con­nect the re­gion by sea must be matched by stronger safe­ty sys­tems.

Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les says the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) gov­ern­ment re­ject­ed a pro­pos­al for an ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI) da­ta cen­tre be­cause the com­pa­ny be­hind it was in­ter­est­ed on­ly in ben­e­fit­ing from Trinidad and To­ba­go’s sub­sidised wa­ter and elec­tric­i­ty rates.

Af­ter years of dev­as­tat­ing floods that de­stroyed homes and dis­rupt­ed lives, res­i­dents of flood-prone com­mu­ni­ties in cen­tral Trinidad say they are once again brac­ing for the worst as the rainy sea­son re­turns.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has earned its first-ever medal at the In­ter­na­tion­al Chem­istry Olympiad (IChO), with Na­pari­ma Col­lege stu­dent Regi­nald Mo­hammed cap­tur­ing a bronze medal at the 57th edi­tion of the glob­al com­pe­ti­tion in Tashkent, Uzbek­istan.

A Diego Mar­tin woman’s apart­ment and an au­to sup­ply store were de­stroyed af­ter a fire broke out at a build­ing yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

A fam­i­ly of five has been left home­less af­ter a fire, be­lieved to have been de­lib­er­ate­ly set, de­stroyed their home at Madras Road, Cunu­pia, on Tues­day, re­duc­ing near­ly all their be­long­ings to ash­es.

More than a month af­ter ac­tivist Alyssa Phillip was con­tro­ver­sial­ly ar­rest­ed dur­ing Labour Day cel­e­bra­tions in Fyz­abad, the labour move­ment is await­ing le­gal ad­vice on whether there are grounds to chal­lenge the mat­ter in court.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has point­ed to po­lice sta­tis­tics which she says show a de­cline in mur­ders un­der her ad­min­is­tra­tion, ar­gu­ing that the da­ta demon­strate the ef­fec­tive­ness of the Gov­ern­ment’s crime-fight­ing mea­sures and the State of Emer­gency (SoE).

Trinidad and To­ba­go has se­cured its first-ever medal at the In­ter­na­tion­al Chem­istry Olympiad (IChO), with Na­pari­ma Col­lege stu­dent Regi­nald Mo­hammed earn­ing a bronze medal at the 57th edi­tion of the glob­al com­pe­ti­tion held in Tashkent, Uzbek­istan.

The Caribbean has strength­ened its in­flu­ence in leg­isla­tive draft­ing across the Com­mon­wealth af­ter two re­gion­al le­gal pro­fes­sion­als were elect­ed to se­nior lead­er­ship po­si­tions in the Com­mon­wealth As­so­ci­a­tion of Leg­isla­tive Coun­sel (CALC).

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos, Jul 21, CMC – The Bar­ba­dos gov­ern­ment Tues­day said that the state fu­ner­al of Na­tion­al Hero and for­mer West In­dies crick­et cap­tain, Sir Garfield Sobers, will take place on Ju­ly 29, at the Kens­ing­ton Oval.

The Privy Coun­cil has list­ed an ap­peal by the State in the le­gal pro­ceed­ings in­volv­ing busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve Hadeed.